China

Take outline notes on China from 1912-Present (20 points)
Toward Revolution in China 685-689
MI: After the invasions from Manchus and divisions, China was heading onto a new road of communism.

• After the fall of the Qing Dynasty it gave the perfect opportunity for the ultimate victory for Mao Zodong and his Communist Party
• Yuan Shikai: a powerful clique in north China wanted to take over the Manchu throne and become the new dynasty and with their wealth and power they gain money from warlords and middle-class politicians
• The country use new ideas to rebuild the civilization as well as the use of the defeat of the Japanese

China's May Fourth Movement and the Rise of the Marxist Alternative
MI: In attempts for a liberal democracy state, people turn to the idea of communism to save the nation.

• 1911: elected president Sun created a parliament that modeled after the people in Europe =>made little effects on the war lords
• War lord Yuan in 1912 was given control and he seem to be that one to unify the state
  • use foreign loans to strengthen the military
  • The second revolution in China was stop by the military of Yuan
• During WWI, the Japanese was working on the taking over China and when they offered the Twenty-one demands in 1915 Yuan did not accept of rejected causing other war-lords to see this as weakness and plotted to overthrow him
• 1915- Yuan was forced to resigned
• After the peace treaty in Versailles the Chinese chose to side with the Entente powers were many nationalists organized mass protest and protests and boycotts against Japan and Japanese goods
• May Fourth movement: movement in transiting Chinese into a liberal democracy nation with speeches, pamphlets, newspapers however Confucianism rejected the idea of Western democracies
  • in efforts to change people wanted to simplify the script
  • banned foot binding
  • new literature written against the Confucianism social code - Family by BaJin
• Bolshevik victory promoted the idea of Marx when people saw the liberal democracy could not solve all of China's problems
• Li Dazhao: from peasant origin he rework the Marxist ideaolgy and taught it to people when he was a college teacher; he believed that working class made up of very little of the population, most of the Chinese were peasants and in order this to resolve is for the nation to unify
• Mao Zedong; he entered one of those study groups Li Dazhao leaded and discuss about the political system and how it was necessary to have an authoritarian state
• Summer of 1921 - a handful of leaders met together in China were they form that Communist Party of China

Why does Li Peng object to the protest movement?

• the protest movement makes up the large population of the peasants
• large mass demonstrations => "rescue the people"

How does he try to persuade ordinary Chinese that the protest should be cease?

• ordinary people are getting hurt
• the act of modernization

What arguments resemble those many governments use against protest?

• people are exposing the turmoil of the government

What arguments reflect more distinctively Chinese traditions or communist values?

• to safely secure the people
• Communist government is the people's government

Why did the Chinese decided to repress political democracy?
The use of political democracy would not help the Chinese in solving all this turmoil.

7. Complete a leadership analysis on Mao Zedong (5 points)

Name of Leader: Mao Zedong
Lifespan December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976	Title: Chairman
Country/region: China	Years in Power 33 years
Political, Social, & Economic Conditions Prior to Leaders Gaining Power China was suffering from political ruling Nationalist Party was trying to take over Peasants are suffering and their issues are being ignored China still have war lords – divided land
Ideology, Motivation, Goals: Wanted to create a better life for the peasants Marx – communism; literature and ideology from Russian Leaders To make China the best once more The use of mass demonstrations Groups under the influence of Li Dazhao
Significant Actions & events During Term of Power 90,000 peasant march into East of China The Great Leap Forward: an attempt to advance China but resulted in the worst for China Cultural Revolution Influenced by his wife – changing women social rights Equally splitting land among the peasants
Short-Term effects: Famine in China due to Great leap forward Peasants gain land	Long-Term Effects Establishment of the People’s Republic of China Advances in military Destruction of the Nationalist Party

8. Write a thesis statement for the following questions (10 points)**

• Analyze the changes and continuities in Chinese politics from 1914 to the present

From 1914 the Chinese continue to rule with the Nationalist Party, but in 1949 Mao Ze Dong took over the government with the Communist Party and control the government with the people and for the people.

• Analyze the changes in Chinese Society from 1914 to the present

The Chinese society changed from in women social rights, and when the Communist Party was in power, the peasants play a larger role in the society.